The question of "using" may have different meanings depending on your definition - if you include "using" libraries or frameworks built with Clojure (partly or in whole) you could include all the companies who deploy, for example, Apache Storm or use some of Puppet Labs' tools.
The consultancy ThoughtWorks has put Clojure on their radar - several Clojure and ClojureScript libraries are also listed (Core Async, Om, Reagent.) I can't vouch for the consultancy itself but I think it is telling that Clojure has a number of technologies listed there. Given the fact that, as a hosted language, Clojure is very different than say, Go or Erlang, where the language ecosystem (runtimes, libraries, etc.) is entirely dependent on the language's popularity in order for it to expand into new environments and remain viable. Given that Java (and the JVM), CLR, and Javascript effectively boost Clojure into new contexts for (mostly) free it can play nice along with existing languages and their momentum. See also: React Native. Additionally, consider that ClojureScript and Om have strongly influenced the React community w.r.t. immutability, I'd say that counts as a big win for Clojure. IMHO, job boards are effectively looking backwards in time. It isn't the place to look if you are trying new things or being innovative. Sure, if you want to hire some easily replaceable "tool" go for Java... what could possibly go wrong? :-) Alan On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 7:47:41 AM UTC-8, Michael Richards wrote: > > I'm about to start training 4 devs on my team at Oracle in Clojure. My > manager is very nervous about putting Clojure into the product. I'm > forging on regardless :) I rewrote some components of our product in > Clojure in my spare time, mainly as a proof of concept that we could do > some of our analytics in the streaming model rather than in the data > warehousing model. As sometimes happens, the POC was so simple and fast > that the team is now interested in productizing it. > > In our last 1-1 meeting, my manager told me he had searched LinkedIn for > Clojure and "only" got 9000 matches. Whereas his search for Java turned > up 80 million or some such. My rebuttal is that those are the 9000 > smartest developers, so you should be trying to recruit them. > > > --mike > >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
